Mysticism Primer: Knowledgeable Open Mystic visitors will recognize that the temporal aperture model as
proposed here has implications in mysticism. It differs from
earlier - timeless - efforts in its reliance on modern structural
analogs as its basis. Clues to mystical meta-structures everywhere
surround the observant mind, and in the 21st century we are collectively
better prepared to read those clues than the ancients. Open Mystic is all about elegant extraction of those clues inductively from
modern technical structures.

Open Mystic
is proposed to be the arguably most successful unifying model in that it
truly is all inclusive. It proposes to describe consciousness and
cosmology as fully congruent. The visitor can see in these links, if
they don't already know, that models in the mysticism rubric strive to
find an all inclusive unity. It is an expansive pursuit. It contrasts
with philosophy in that the latter is a reductionist, redactive
intellectual effort.

Likely it is that a
highly diverse society in which leisure time is available and life spans
relatively long will provide an ideal scenario such that at least a tiny
number of inspired individuals may be able to propose reasonable highly
inclusive models under the grand umbrella of mysticism.

The
Internet is full of sites dealing with mysticism in all facets.
Here is a selection that will open in a new browser window:

+
Wikipedia
- Mysticism from the Greekμυω
(muo, "concealed") is the pursuit of achieving communion or
identity with, or conscious awareness of, ultimate
reality, the divine,
spiritual
truth, or God
through direct experience, intuition, or insight; and the belief that
such experience is an important source of knowledge or understanding...

+Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The
term ‘mysticism,’ comes from the Greek μυω, meaning
“to conceal.” In the Hellenistic world, ‘mystical’ referred to
“secret” religious rituals. In early Christianity the term came to
refer to “hidden”...

+ The
Mystica - This
is a belief in or the pursuit in the unification with the One or some
other principle; the immediate consciousness of God; or the direct
experience of religious truth. Mysticism is nearly universal...

+Definitions
of Mysticism - What then do we
really mean by mysticism? A word which is impartially applied to the
performance of mediums and the ecstasies of the saints, to "menticulture"
and sorcery, dreamy poetry and mediaeval art, to prayer and palmistry,
the doctrinal excesses of Gnosticism, and the tepid speculations of the
Cambridge Platonists -- even, according to William James, to the higher
branches of intoxication -- soon ceases to have any useful meaning...